TYPE QUESTIONS AND SUPPLY THE CORRECT ANSWERS. LET'S CATEGORIZE THEM: FILL-IN, TRUE/FALSE, MULTIPLE CHOICE, SHORT ANSWERS, DEFINITION, ETC. (I will include many of your questions on the test. Mr. L.)
I don't know why it keeps underlining my questions (shelby)
fixed it. (Caron)
but she never messes up??? (Kyle)
good call Kyle. Shes perfect. (Stu)
TRUE/FALSE (IF FALSE, PROVIDE EXPLANATION)
1. Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one year after publishing Tom Sawyer. (False: Huck Finn was published eight years after Tom Sawyer.) (Mr. L.)
2. Huck was tricked into believing that the circus daredevil horse rider was drunk. (True.) (A.J.)
3. Boggs survived the shooting by Col. Sherburn after a Bible was placed on his chest. (False) (A.J.)(Boggs actually died.) (Amy A.)
4. The King scams the people at the camp meeting, telling them he is a pirate from the Indian Ocean. (True.) (A.J.)
5. Huck convinces the slave hunters that his father on the raft has small pox. (True.) (A.J.)
6. Huck watches Col. Sherburn get lynched for shooting down the innocent Boggs. (False.)(A.J.) (Sherburn gave a speech that made the crowd disperse) (Amy A.)
7. At the funeral, Huck hides the money in the grand piano. (False.)(A.J.) (He hid it in the coffin) (Amy A.)
8. Cairo is south of St. Louis. (True.) (A.J.)
9. The King convinces the Wilks' sisters he's sincere by offering his inheritance to them. (True.) (A.J.)
10. Dr. Robinson doesn't believe that the King and the Duke are Peter Wilks' brothers. (True.)(A.J.)
11. E.W Kemble published the original Huckleberry Finn (False.... he illustrated it) (shelby)
12. Tom Sawyer is based on Mark Twain's childhood friend Tom Blankenship (False...Huck is based on Blankenship). (William)
13. The Duke mangles the soliloquy from Hamlet, (True) (William). (and from Romeo and Juliet) (Caroline Lassiter)
14. Tom is happy to have been shot. (True) (William).
FILL-IN
1. What type of newspaper clippings did Emmeline Grangerford collect? (Obituaries) (Mr. L.)
2. The reader "don't know" about Huck Finn unless he/she had read the book The Adventure of _. (Tom Saywer.) (A.J.)
3. What is the name of the judge who is keeping Hucks $6,000 and "put it out at interest"? (Judge Thatcher) (A.J.)
4. What "tolerable slim old maid" asks Huck not to "scrunch up like that"? (Miss Watson) (A.J.)
5. Who says "me-ow! me-ow!" down below Huck's window? (Tom Saywer) (A.J.)
6. What " -center piece" did Jim always wear around his neck because it was a charm the devil had given to him? (5) (A.J.)
7. For how long had Pap not been seen in town? (A year) (A.J.)
8. At the beginning of Ch. 3, what subjects does Huck think "there ain't nothing in it" and he asks Miss Watson many questions about? (Prayer) (A.J.)
9. What event do the boys "ambuscade"? (A Sunday school picnic) (A.J.)
10. Jim's hair-ball comes from the fourth stomach of an ? (A cow) (A.J.) (actually its an ox) (alex j)
11. Where was Mark Twain BORN? (Florida MO) (Shelby K)
12.What city did Mark Twain build a mansion? (Hartfort, CT) (Shelby K)
13. What city holds the entire Huck Finn manuscript? (Buffalo, NY.... in Eerie county) (Shelby)
14. Who told Mark Twain stories when he was a child? (Uncle Dan'l) (Shelby)
15. What is Mark Twain's entire real name? (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (shelby)
16. Name of steamboat captain that Sam Clemens worked for? (Bixby) (shelby)
17. Who said '' Mark Twain just could not write a dull sentence?'' (Bret Harte) (shelby)
18. Who said "All American literature comes from one place and that is Huckleberry Finn" (Earnest Hemmingway) (shelby)
19.Who is the real boy that Huck is based on? (Tom Blankenship) (shelby)
20. Who actually tells Jim that he is a free man? (Aunt Polly) (shelby)
21.Who first realizes that the King and Duke are frauds? (Dr Robinson) (shelby)
22.What do Tom and Huck bake Jim to hide the rope ladder? (a witch pie) (shelby)
22. Who kills Boggs in the street? (colonel Sherburn) (shelby)
23. What city was the library located that called HuckFinn trash? (Concord Mass) (shelby)
24. What servant in Mark Twains household told the story of being reunited with her son. (Aunt Rachel) (William).
25. After escaping thet feud Huck says "Ain't no home like a _ " (raft) (shelby)
26. Mrs. Loftus has a problem. (Rat) (shelby)
27. Huck tells the Wilks he is from what country? (England) (shelby)
28. What is the most famous Picaresque Novel? (Don Quixote) (William).
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which name is NOT associated with the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud? (Mary Jane is a Wilks daughter) (Mr. L.)
A. Mary Jane B. Sophia C. Buck D. Harney
DEFINITIONS
1. What is satire?
Satire: holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn in hopes of changing the world (Mr. L.)
2. What is a picaro?
- A rogue, a person of low character but who is likable, also has a connotation as a "defective specimen" (William)
SHORT ANSWERS
(Students should answer these questions in paragraph form, using numbers where appropriate. Mr. L.)
1. What are the four elements of a picaresque novel and explain how The Adventures of Huck Finn is an example of a picaresque novel.
The Adventures of Huck Finn is an example of a picaresque novel. This story is told in 1st person by Huck who is also the picaro, which means this person is of low character and is very likable. This is shown when Huck tells us he does not like school and when he says “Ain’t no home like a raft”. Also, the book contains many stories in no definite plot. It goes from being on the raft, to tricking a town, to dressing up like a girl. The last element of a picaresque novel is that the main character matures and grows throughout the novel. We see Huck become less racist towards blacks as he gets to know Jim. One time he says he wouldn’t of done it if he knew that was how Jim would have felt. (Kati)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel. Huck Finn is an uneducated, teenage delinquent who runs away, skips school, and lives in the woods sometimes. He is roguish in the ways he acts. The story is also told from his point of view (first person). These two first characteristics can be shown by the quote: "At first I hated the school...". Also, the book tells a story made up of multiple storylines and no big plot. Some of these plots are: the part with the Grangerfords, scamming the friends of Mr. Wilks, and the jailbreak at the Phelps family. At the end of the story, Huck learns that black people have emotions and are human too. He also agreees to be civilized by Mrs. Phelps. All these show how The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel. (Caron)
2. What are the four mythic images that represent the significance of the novel? (See notes.) (Mr. L.)
The first mythic image is the Mississippi River as the enduring symbol of the United States heartland as the gateway to the west which represents the population migration and the river also cuts through the heartland in the sense that the river is life giving. The second image is the transition from steamboats to rafts to show that water travel touches the nomadic yearning and "going with the flow" is an ingrained belief in "fate". The third symbol is youthful innocence and the desire to run away to be free of problems and the river provides the "perfect freedom". The fourth symbol is the vanishing way of life that comforts us with "who we are" as a nation and as proof that we are moving forward and progressing. (Elizabeth)
3. Discuss the publishing history of The Adventures of Huck Finn, focusing particularly on the lost first-half of the manuscript and how the ownership issue was resolved with the Gluck sisters. (Mr. L.)
Quizbowl Questions
(Caron) (edited by Parker)
What is Samuel Clemens' birthplace?
Florida, Missouri
Samuel Clemens' middle name?
Langhorne
What is the name of the town he grew up in?
Hannibal
Town he fictionalizes in Huckleberry Finn?
St. Petersburg
State across the river?
Illinois
City where the sisters found half of the old manuscript?
Los Angeles
Sisters' name?
Gluck sisters
Where is the library where the manuscript is housed?
Eerie County Library in Buffalo, New York
Name of the city of Mark Twains's mansion?
Hartford, Connecticut
Slave where Sam Clemens found the joy of storytelling?
Uncle Dan'l
Name of the woman who was a servant in Hartford telling the story of her reuniting with her son?
Aunt Rachel
Name of the guy who said "what do you think they were looking at going down that river?"
Hal Holbrook (NOT GARTH HOLBERT)
"Mark Twain couldn't write a dull sentence", said by whom?
Bret Harte
This writer said "all American literature comes from one book named The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Ernest Hemingway
Why did Sam Clemens quit school and go to work with his brother at printing?
Father had died
Who is Horace Bixby?
Steamboat captain who taught Mark Twain all about the river
Who is Henry Clemens and what was his affect on Twain?
Brother who died in the steamboat accident and Twain blamed himself for it and ultimately left the river.
Who is Jim's scarlet fever stricken daughter?
Little 'lizabeth
Who informs Jim about his freedom?
Aunt Polly
Who is the girl with the 'most sand'?
Mary Jane
Who is the Wilks brother with a broken arm and can't speak?
William
For how much does Huck sell his $6000 to Judge Thatcher?
$1
Describe the final time Huck sees the "royalty"?
They were being tarred and feathered and being run out of town on a rail.
Title of the person and first name. First person to call King and Duke frauds?
Dr. Robinson
Huck and Tom bake Jim a ___ with a rope ladder in it at the Phelps place.
Witch Pie
At the end of the novel, something exciting happens to Tom. What is he excited about?
He gets shot. Keeps bullet around a watch necklace.
Money that Jim gets for putting up with Huck and Tom's antics?
$40
Name one Wilks sister? (other than Mary Jane)
Joanna
Susan
The King at the tent meeting collects money to save whom?
The Indian Ocean pirates.
What superstition came true for Jim?
Hair on the chest and arms means he becomes rich again
Who shoots the loafer Boggs?
Sherburn
How do they alleviate Boggs' pain?
Put a bible under his head and on his chest.
Huck says after he escapes the feud: "There ain't no home like a "
Raft
This library called the book "for the slums" and "trash".
Concord, Mass. Library
Who was the childhood friend of Sam Clemens who was son of town drunkard?
Tom Blankenship
Name of the wrecked steamboat?
Sir Walter Scott
Grangerford/Sheperdson Feud was fought over what?
They don't know
How many wives did King Solomon have (according to Jim)?
1 million
Name of the drowned boy who fell down the well?
Stephen Dowling Botts
Name of the disease Huck claims his father on the raft has?
Smallpox
Who me-ow's under Huck's window?
Tom
Who gets mad about Huck for his manners?
Mrs. Watson
Who does Pap think is the Angel of Death?
Huck
What bites Pap in his dream?
Snakes
Loftus has what problem in her home?
Rats
What is the charm Jim wears?
The five-centerpiece
Name of one of the criminals on the Walter Scott?
Jim Turner or Jake Packard and Bill
Name of the town that runaways go to?
Cairo
Which happens first? The feud or the shooting of Boggs?
Feud
What do the feuders take to church?
Guns
Jim's sons name?
Lil' Johnny
What town in England does Huck say he's from?
Sheffield
If you are the son of the king of France you are called what?
Dauphin
Why did the dolphin kill himself?
Because he doesn't have a porpoise in life.
haha....
---> Coach Logan, I must say that joke made my day (Lizzie)
Who does Sophia run off with?
Harvey Sheperdson
What ailment does Huck think the daredevil rider has?
Drunk
TYPE QUESTIONS AND SUPPLY THE CORRECT ANSWERS. LET'S CATEGORIZE THEM: FILL-IN, TRUE/FALSE, MULTIPLE CHOICE, SHORT ANSWERS, DEFINITION, ETC. (I will include many of your questions on the test. Mr. L.)
I don't know why it keeps underlining my questions (shelby)
fixed it. (Caron)
but she never messes up??? (Kyle)
good call Kyle. Shes perfect. (Stu)
TRUE/FALSE (IF FALSE, PROVIDE EXPLANATION)
1. Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one year after publishing Tom Sawyer. (False: Huck Finn was published eight years after Tom Sawyer.) (Mr. L.)
2. Huck was tricked into believing that the circus daredevil horse rider was drunk. (True.) (A.J.)
3. Boggs survived the shooting by Col. Sherburn after a Bible was placed on his chest. (False) (A.J.)(Boggs actually died.) (Amy A.)
4. The King scams the people at the camp meeting, telling them he is a pirate from the Indian Ocean. (True.) (A.J.)
5. Huck convinces the slave hunters that his father on the raft has small pox. (True.) (A.J.)
6. Huck watches Col. Sherburn get lynched for shooting down the innocent Boggs. (False.)(A.J.) (Sherburn gave a speech that made the crowd disperse) (Amy A.)
7. At the funeral, Huck hides the money in the grand piano. (False.)(A.J.) (He hid it in the coffin) (Amy A.)
8. Cairo is south of St. Louis. (True.) (A.J.)
9. The King convinces the Wilks' sisters he's sincere by offering his inheritance to them. (True.) (A.J.)
10. Dr. Robinson doesn't believe that the King and the Duke are Peter Wilks' brothers. (True.)(A.J.)
11. E.W Kemble published the original Huckleberry Finn (False.... he illustrated it) (shelby)
12. Tom Sawyer is based on Mark Twain's childhood friend Tom Blankenship (False...Huck is based on Blankenship). (William)
13. The Duke mangles the soliloquy from Hamlet, (True) (William). (and from Romeo and Juliet) (Caroline Lassiter)
14. Tom is happy to have been shot. (True) (William).
FILL-IN
1. What type of newspaper clippings did Emmeline Grangerford collect? (Obituaries) (Mr. L.)
2. The reader "don't know" about Huck Finn unless he/she had read the book The Adventure of _. (Tom Saywer.) (A.J.)
3. What is the name of the judge who is keeping Hucks $6,000 and "put it out at interest"? (Judge Thatcher) (A.J.)
4. What "tolerable slim old maid" asks Huck not to "scrunch up like that"? (Miss Watson) (A.J.)
5. Who says "me-ow! me-ow!" down below Huck's window? (Tom Saywer) (A.J.)
6. What " -center piece" did Jim always wear around his neck because it was a charm the devil had given to him? (5) (A.J.)
7. For how long had Pap not been seen in town? (A year) (A.J.)
8. At the beginning of Ch. 3, what subjects does Huck think "there ain't nothing in it" and he asks Miss Watson many questions about? (Prayer) (A.J.)
9. What event do the boys "ambuscade"? (A Sunday school picnic) (A.J.)
10. Jim's hair-ball comes from the fourth stomach of an ? (A cow) (A.J.) (actually its an ox) (alex j)
11. Where was Mark Twain BORN? (Florida MO) (Shelby K)
12.What city did Mark Twain build a mansion? (Hartfort, CT) (Shelby K)
13. What city holds the entire Huck Finn manuscript? (Buffalo, NY.... in Eerie county) (Shelby)
14. Who told Mark Twain stories when he was a child? (Uncle Dan'l) (Shelby)
15. What is Mark Twain's entire real name? (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (shelby)
16. Name of steamboat captain that Sam Clemens worked for? (Bixby) (shelby)
17. Who said '' Mark Twain just could not write a dull sentence?'' (Bret Harte) (shelby)
18. Who said "All American literature comes from one place and that is Huckleberry Finn" (Earnest Hemmingway) (shelby)
19.Who is the real boy that Huck is based on? (Tom Blankenship) (shelby)
20. Who actually tells Jim that he is a free man? (Aunt Polly) (shelby)
21.Who first realizes that the King and Duke are frauds? (Dr Robinson) (shelby)
22.What do Tom and Huck bake Jim to hide the rope ladder? (a witch pie) (shelby)
22. Who kills Boggs in the street? (colonel Sherburn) (shelby)
23. What city was the library located that called HuckFinn trash? (Concord Mass) (shelby)
24. What servant in Mark Twains household told the story of being reunited with her son. (Aunt Rachel) (William).
25. After escaping thet feud Huck says "Ain't no home like a _ " (raft) (shelby)
26. Mrs. Loftus has a problem. (Rat) (shelby)
27. Huck tells the Wilks he is from what country? (England) (shelby)
28. What is the most famous Picaresque Novel? (Don Quixote) (William).
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which name is NOT associated with the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud? (Mary Jane is a Wilks daughter) (Mr. L.)
A. Mary Jane B. Sophia C. Buck D. Harney
DEFINITIONS
1. What is satire?
2. What is a picaro?
- A rogue, a person of low character but who is likable, also has a connotation as a "defective specimen" (William)
SHORT ANSWERS
(Students should answer these questions in paragraph form, using numbers where appropriate. Mr. L.)
1. What are the four elements of a picaresque novel and explain how The Adventures of Huck Finn is an example of a picaresque novel.
2. What are the four mythic images that represent the significance of the novel? (See notes.) (Mr. L.)
3. Discuss the publishing history of The Adventures of Huck Finn, focusing particularly on the lost first-half of the manuscript and how the ownership issue was resolved with the Gluck sisters. (Mr. L.)
Quizbowl Questions
(Caron) (edited by Parker)What is Samuel Clemens' birthplace?
Florida, Missouri
Samuel Clemens' middle name?
Langhorne
What is the name of the town he grew up in?
Hannibal
Town he fictionalizes in Huckleberry Finn?
St. Petersburg
State across the river?
Illinois
City where the sisters found half of the old manuscript?
Los Angeles
Sisters' name?
Gluck sisters
Where is the library where the manuscript is housed?
Eerie County Library in Buffalo, New York
Name of the city of Mark Twains's mansion?
Hartford, Connecticut
Slave where Sam Clemens found the joy of storytelling?
Uncle Dan'l
Name of the woman who was a servant in Hartford telling the story of her reuniting with her son?
Aunt Rachel
Name of the guy who said "what do you think they were looking at going down that river?"
Hal Holbrook (NOT GARTH HOLBERT)
"Mark Twain couldn't write a dull sentence", said by whom?
Bret Harte
This writer said "all American literature comes from one book named The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Ernest Hemingway
Why did Sam Clemens quit school and go to work with his brother at printing?
Father had died
Who is Horace Bixby?
Steamboat captain who taught Mark Twain all about the river
Who is Henry Clemens and what was his affect on Twain?
Brother who died in the steamboat accident and Twain blamed himself for it and ultimately left the river.
Who is Jim's scarlet fever stricken daughter?
Little 'lizabeth
Who informs Jim about his freedom?
Aunt Polly
Who is the girl with the 'most sand'?
Mary Jane
Who is the Wilks brother with a broken arm and can't speak?
William
For how much does Huck sell his $6000 to Judge Thatcher?
$1
Describe the final time Huck sees the "royalty"?
They were being tarred and feathered and being run out of town on a rail.
Title of the person and first name. First person to call King and Duke frauds?
Dr. Robinson
Huck and Tom bake Jim a ___ with a rope ladder in it at the Phelps place.
Witch Pie
At the end of the novel, something exciting happens to Tom. What is he excited about?
He gets shot. Keeps bullet around a watch necklace.
Money that Jim gets for putting up with Huck and Tom's antics?
$40
Name one Wilks sister? (other than Mary Jane)
Joanna
Susan
The King at the tent meeting collects money to save whom?
The Indian Ocean pirates.
What superstition came true for Jim?
Hair on the chest and arms means he becomes rich again
Who shoots the loafer Boggs?
Sherburn
How do they alleviate Boggs' pain?
Put a bible under his head and on his chest.
Huck says after he escapes the feud: "There ain't no home like a "
Raft
This library called the book "for the slums" and "trash".
Concord, Mass. Library
Who was the childhood friend of Sam Clemens who was son of town drunkard?
Tom Blankenship
Name of the wrecked steamboat?
Sir Walter Scott
Grangerford/Sheperdson Feud was fought over what?
They don't know
How many wives did King Solomon have (according to Jim)?
1 million
Name of the drowned boy who fell down the well?
Stephen Dowling Botts
Name of the disease Huck claims his father on the raft has?
Smallpox
Who me-ow's under Huck's window?
Tom
Who gets mad about Huck for his manners?
Mrs. Watson
Who does Pap think is the Angel of Death?
Huck
What bites Pap in his dream?
Snakes
Loftus has what problem in her home?
Rats
What is the charm Jim wears?
The five-centerpiece
Name of one of the criminals on the Walter Scott?
Jim Turner or Jake Packard and Bill
Name of the town that runaways go to?
Cairo
Which happens first? The feud or the shooting of Boggs?
Feud
What do the feuders take to church?
Guns
Jim's sons name?
Lil' Johnny
What town in England does Huck say he's from?
Sheffield
If you are the son of the king of France you are called what?
Dauphin
Why did the dolphin kill himself?
Because he doesn't have a porpoise in life.
haha....
---> Coach Logan, I must say that joke made my day (Lizzie)
Who does Sophia run off with?
Harvey Sheperdson
What ailment does Huck think the daredevil rider has?
Drunk